Sebastian also hadn't expected her reaction to be so strong. Pushed like that, his back struck the coffee table hard, making a loud crash.The bathroom door slammed shut."Ouch~ This girl really does have some strength."Sebastian, his back smarting, groaned in pain, barely managed to stand while supporting himself, and lay straight down on the sofa.Nell, in the bathroom, looked at the blood on one hand, then at her flushed face in the mirror, thinking that she'd had a nosebleed because of Sebastian's body — and felt thoroughly out of sorts.She paced back and forth in the bathroom without meaning to, muttering the whole while: "It's a sin, an absolute sin, falling for a man's looks like that, simply unforgivable, unforgivable."Nell couldn't calm herself down at all. The moment she stopped pacing, the image of Sebastian coming out of the bathroom flickered back into her mind, and she felt half-mad.Just as she was working out how to bury the matter entirely, there was a knock at the
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